I met you in 2009 at your baby shower and we've been stuck like glue since. My ace, my best friend, my teacher, my role model and my sister. Keiya I love you beyond words can ever express. You're the sister I never had and blood couldn't have made us any closer. Despite the good, the bad, and the ugly you never once judged me and you have been here since day one. Not only for me but for Jayden as well. The best tt any little boy could ask for. From the fights down to the encouraging words I'd give anything just to hear your voice again. There's nothing no one could have done that would have prepared ourselves for this tragedy but I promise the long talks, fussing and cussing won't go in vain. We were so close. If you was rocking I was rolling. We've laughed and we've cried, our bond may have bended but it was never broken. I promise to keep the boys close and be there for Traelen as you've done for Jayden. It all still seems so surreal as if I'm dreaming, waiting to be woken up. We had so much left to do. I just needed more time sissy. My heart hurts and this is very overwhelming. I know we're not suppose to question God but it's hard not to when things like this happen but Lord I trust you! I know what Im doing, my child. Trust me. I have a plan and a purpose for this pain. You are known. You are seen. You are beautifully and perfectly loved. I know that not everything I do for your good will always feel good at the time it is happening. I know that you are not always going to be happy with me when I am removing something from your life or adding something to it that you do not understand. I know that your life is not always going to seem like the easiest place for you to exist, and sometimes you are going to wonder where I am. I know that you are going to face moments in your life when you question my presence, my power, and my plan. You are going to wonder if there is purpose for you in the seasons of dryness and pain. I know that you may find yourself wondering if the pain will ever stop, if the light will ever dawn again. Rest my child. Rest in me. Rest in the truth that I know every plan I have for your life. Rest in the truth that I know what needs to be in your life and what needs to be removed. Rest in me. Rest in assurance that I always have your best interest at heart. Rest in the truth that I will never do anything to harm you. Rest in assurance that you are mine and because you are mine you will always be taken care of. Even in this season of absence, this season of pruning, of stripping, of peeling back the layers of pain- even in this season I am still good. All things will still work together for your good. You belong to me, and there is nothing that can change that. Fear not, I am with you. You are my daughter. And that is enough. Trust me, I am doing a new thing and one day you will perceive it. My sisters keeper always and forever. I love you! Slay in Heaven sissy! Forever and Always, Keyonha